{"product_id":"june-leaf-thought-is-infinite-9783958291027","title":"June Leaf: Thought Is Infinite","description":"\u003cp\u003eJune Leaf paints in the fantastical tradition of Bosch  Goya and the Surrealists June Leafs extraordinary body of work--one built over nearly seven decades--belongs within a long tradition of visionary figures  from William Blake and Francisco Goya to James Ensor and Odilon Redon. Like these innovative predecessors  and incorporating elements of both Expressionism and Surrealism  Leaf infuses representational imagery with an intense subjectivity and personal symbolist vision. She does so through an extraordinary approach to and facility with materials  often combining mediums and matter in unorthodox ways. Leafs exhibition at the Whitney and this accompanying comprehensive publication include drawings from every decade of her career  as well as a selection of sculptures and paintings  in order to elucidate the migration and cross-referencing of motifs and techniques from one medium to the other. In an immersive installation  the viewer perceives how the artists studio space intersects with her extraordinarily rich imagination and deeply personal  invented world in which fiction and reality indistinguishably merge. June Leaf was born in Chicago in 1929. She began her artistic career in the 1940s  studying at the Chicago Art Institute and the New Bauhaus Institute of Design. In 1958  Leaf was awarded a Fulbright to study art in Paris. In 1960  she moved to New York. Her drawings  paintings and sculptures have been widely collected and are in many museums  including the Whitney Museum of American Art  The Museum of Modern Art  the Chicago Art Institute and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Leaf has received two honorary doctoral degrees  one from DePaul University in Chicago and one from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665927168053,"sku":"ByrdShop_3958291023","price":95.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9783958291027.jpg?v=1782414424","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/june-leaf-thought-is-infinite-9783958291027","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}